Entries from July 2013

LAST WEEKEND, Georgia Multisports Productions held its fourth annual Crow’s Lake Sprint Triathlon in Jefferson. Approxiamately 300 athletes were on hand to swim 400 yards, bike 15.5 miles and run 3.1 miles (5K). The overall male winner was Zachary Pitts, 37, of Avondale Estates. Pitts posted a time of 1:09:01. The overall female winner was ...
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In late August, Mercer University in Macon will compete in its first sanctioned football game in over 70 years. After nearly three years of planning and preparation, Commerce native Bobby Lamb will lead the team he has built from the ground up. Lamb was hired as the head coach at Mercer University in 2011, after exiting a nine-year tenure with ...
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OPENING DAY of college football season is just around the corner, and for former Jefferson quarterback Bryant Shirreffs, it marks his debut as an NCAA athlete. While official practice doesn’t start until early August, Shirreffs has been hard at work conditioning and learning schemes for the North Carolina State offense. While Shirreffs was ...
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The Commerce High School softball team began summer league play last week in preparation for its 2013 fall season. The Lady Tigers played games in Habersham and Franklin counties in hopes of gaining in-game experience for a large roster of relatively young players. While the Tigers were defeated in both games, head coach Pam Canup isn’t ...
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Barrow County high school students during the 2012-13 school year performed better on most of the state’s End of Course Tests than the previous year. Passage rates rose on the tests for 9th Grade Literature, American Literature, Biology, and Physical Science, and were about the same in U.S. History. But local students slipped some on the ...
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We all remember the big historic moments of our lives. The day President Kennedy was killed. The first moon landing. President Nixon resigning. The Challenger tragedy. 9/11. But historic shifts aren’t just momentous, singular events. More often, they are the accumulation of many smaller changes that we barely notice at the time. It’s only ...
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It’s about to get a little tougher to be the valedictorian and salutatorian in the Jackson County School System. The Jackson County Board of Education I set to approve an amended system policy next month that will require students standing to be one of the top two graduates in their class to have successfully completed at least three academic ...
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It isn’t much to brag about, but leaders of the Jackson County School System think the system may finish its fiscal year with a little more money in the bank than they first thought. The Jackson County Board of Education heard a report last week from its staff that the system may have finished FY2013 on June 30 with around $1.4 million in ...
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By Christine Davis For a competitive gymnast, the state meet is the most exciting meet of the year. It is the culmination of a season of dedication and hard work, and a chance to see if they are, in fact, the best in the state at their level. In April, the Level 2 and 3 gymnasts from Madison County travelled to Bainbridge, with the rest of ...
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The Madison County Board of Commissioners will meet from 9 a.m. to noon, Monday through Wednesday, July 22-24 in the county government complex to discuss the county budget for 2014. The Madison County Board of Commissioners will meet from 9 a.m. to noon, Monday through Wednesday, July 22-24 in the county government complex to discuss the county ...